Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-01-20

h as never been completed A bill was re-
ported favoraby approprieting $500 for
the erection or purchase of keeper lodge
ct the YORKTOWN monument. and $500 an
nually for keeping the grounds ofthat monu-
ment 10 good order. A bill was also intro
duced making the plan of the proposed rail-
road bridge over the Arthur Kill, the creek
between Staten Island and New Jersey, con-
form to the plan of the engineers, increas-
ing the span from 200 10 400 feet. The
House amendments to the electoral count
bill were concurred in Mr.. Sherman in
troduced an amendment to the Freedman's
Bank bill, providing for the payment of all
claims against that bank barred as we'll as
anbarred At an early hour the Senate
went into executive session. for the purpose,
it was understood, Of considering the bill Tor
the extension OF the Hawaiian treaty.
Among the petitions got before the House
through the petition box yesterday was one
of Gen. Ruggles, of Fredericksburg, asking
an appropriation of 100000, to be under the
control of representatives Brady, of Virgin
Ia; Wheeler, of Alabama, and one other, to
enable experiments to be made for produc'
ing rain and eflecting changes in the condl-
ton of the atmosphere by means OF explo-
sives discharged from balloons.
General Wickham, ]. A. Curtis, of Baltimore,
H. D. B. Clay of Newport News Judge Harris
and others were again before subcommittee OF
the House commerce committee to-day, arguing
in favor of the bill to add portion of the Nor
folk customs district to the Yorktown district.
Reprcsentatiye-elect Bowden, of Norfolk, was
present to oppose the bill The hearing was
closed to day, but the subcommittee have not ye5
indicated the character of tho report they Will
mako.
Representative Daniel when asked to-day by the
t1,Ar FIR
the passage of the Educational bill, replied 1t was
impossible to tell, though the votes yesterday
were favorable He said that though TIE resoln-
ton passed by his committee requesting day Tor
the consideration OF its bills did not prohibit the
calling up of the Educational bill, there was some
sort of an unders. andiug by the chairman of that
committee that that bill was not to DO in
cluded among the bills to be called up when a
day should he granted the committee. de said
the resolution fixing day for the consideration
of the bill would not probably come up again to-
day and that bsfore it would be called up again
the committee would meet anu determine "Aeth-
er or not they would decide to support the
understanding of their chairman.
Repre- entative McComas, of the Cumberland
district in Maryland, says in view OF the evident
disposition of the House, any effort to induce
Congress to make an appropriation for keeping in
repair or for extending the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal wonld be so much time ana labor thrown
away.
In the House to. day another resolution was
adopted calling for information respecting the
condition of the Indebtedness of the subsidized
railroads TO the Government. The House then
considered pension bills, among them one giving
pension of $50 month to soldiers made deaf
by the war.
The House District of Columbia committee to-
day reported favorably bill granting charter
to the company proposing to build the Windsor
Hotel here, also one authorizing the condemna.
ton of property for park to be laid Oil
along the banks of Rock Creek.
In view of the report that representative Cox,
of North Carolns is candidate for a District of
fee, his response to toast for home rule, at the
supper of the Columbia democratic club mere last
night, was the occasion of some comment at the
Capitol 10 day.
Ex-representative Reid of North Carolina, who
disappeared under cloud soma time since, and
subsequently, rendered his resignation as mem
Der of the House, is sojonrning with friend in
Toronto, Canada; Ii is said here that all his Pc
Gu larry troubles have been settled satisfactorily
and that he will soon return to the United States,
but will hereafter make his homo in the West
aud practice his profc sion, law, there.